CVE-2013-5136: Apple Remote Desktop

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Apple Remote Desktop before 3.7 does not properly use server authentication-type information during decisions about whether to present an unencrypted-connection warning message, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information in opportunistic circumstances by sniffing the network during an unintended cleartext VNC session.

Affected products

• Apple Apple Remote Desktop: up to and including 3.6.2; version 3.0.0 only; version 3.1 only; version 3.2 only; version 3.2.1 only; version 3.2.2 only; …

Published 2013-10-24. Last modified 2026-06-16.